Jumpy mobile phone battery

[machineman9]

Right, yesterday I got a lovely new Sony Ericsson K800i from Vodafone and it is superb- great camera, good user functions and it is actually somewhat up to date.

But the battery is giving me a few problems. It came with half a charge of battery, so I let it run down. I then charged it over night to full charge and I am letting it run down again. Earlier it said it had 97% of the charge left, then about an hour after it had 95% (thats pretty fast decharging) and then soon after it said 96%. About an hour or two later it is down at 90% charge.

I am wondering what is causing this. I have played maybe 6 minutes of music and taken 2 photos and then shared some files on USB... nothing that should take up nearly 4 hours of charge.


Any thoughts?


Cheers

(photos maybe coming soon  ;) )

[Fozzer]

[quote]Right, yesterday I got a lovely new Sony Ericsson K800i from Vodafone and it is superb- great camera, good user functions and it is actually somewhat up to date.

But the battery is giving me a few problems. It came with half a charge of battery, so I let it run down. I then charged it over night to full charge and I am letting it run down again. Earlier it said it had 97% of the charge left, then about an hour after it had 95% (thats pretty fast decharging) and then soon after it said 96%. About an hour or two later it is down at 90% charge.

I am wondering what is causing this. I have played maybe 6 minutes of music and taken 2 photos and then shared some files on USB... nothing that should take up nearly 4 hours of charge.


Any thoughts?


Cheers

(photos maybe coming soon

[machineman9]

You would be suprised what a mobile phone can't do...

The signal bar is very jumpy also. Apparently it sounded like I was in another country when I rang my friend who lived down the road.

That may be a Vodafone problem. Seems I am in a 3G hotspot area... but when I looked that up it seemed to have the blue (general communications) areas a few miles away from me.

Wierd  ;D

[Fozzer]

The signal bar is very jumpy also. Apparently it sounded like I was in another country when I rang my friend who lived down the road.

Stand still, and don't keep jumping up and down?... ...!

Paul.... ...!

[machineman9]

Paul... a master class chef and technological genius  ;)

[Fozzer]

[quote]Paul... a master class chef and technological genius

[machineman9]

Hmm... If I don't make use of the service in 18 months, my number gets deleted.

[Fozzer]

Hmm... If I don't make use of the service in 18 months, my number gets deleted.

I think mine is every three Months...

I get one of the children to pop up to see me. They use my Mobile 'phone to 'phone themselves on their Mobile 'phone, they say "Hello" to themselves, then cancel the call....
....takes seconds...and restores my "Pay-as-you-go" usage time for another three Months... ...!

....sorted!.....and I've still got

[machineman9]

I would have just personally made good use of my mother's "

[Fozzer]

Texting on a Mobile 'Phone is a form of Water Torture...

For Text Messages I use O2's Free Texting Service on my PC using my standard Keyboard, (with the full set of keys)......!

I cant be arsed with fiddling on a Mobile 'Phone key-strip.....

...life is much too short..........and can sink one's Boat... ...!

Paul....

[machineman9]

My old nokia was great at texting... couldn't hold as many characters as I wanted at times, and it was about 5 times as slow... but it got me a message sent.